Word: disciplinarianism
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...business acumen, of a prostitute−and a two-year-old illegitimate son to show for it. But it is Hank, a Neanderthal 18-year-old, around whom the family and its impending tragedy pivot. A stint in his father's boots as the family's wartime disciplinarian, plus the lure of easy money, has turned Hank into a small-time mobster. He wields a mean cosh in a gang that includes sister Katie and two of his brothers. On one night's prowl he kills an old caretaker. From that moment on, the life...
...sort of Hungarian Li'l Abner, renowned in physical-culture circles as Mr. Universe (6 ft. 2 in., 220 Ibs.), had crashingly fallen for Broadway's Daisy-Mae-Westish Actress Jayne (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) Mansfield, 23, in full view of the tabloids. A stern theatrical disciplinarian, Sexagenarian West, punishing Mickey for openly airing his romance, demoted him in her show by putting him back on the biceps line. Since everything Mickey had now seemed to be Jayne's, Mae also killed a scene in which Mr. Universe had husked to her, twice nightly, the vintage...
Good Morning, Miss Dove (20th Century-Fox) takes a tedious two hours to say good night. A tear-stained biography of a grade-school teacher, it stars Jennifer Jones as the town's prim disciplinarian whose glacial tones can make a hardened hoodlum jump to attention. One fine morning, Jennifer gets a pain in her back and. as she awaits medical attention, launches into the first of a series of flashbacks that show her renouncing her true love (she has to pay back some $11,-ooo her ever-loving daddy embezzled), helping a Polish immigrant to learn English...
Young Valery Alexandrovich Lysikov's ambition was to become an airplane pilot. It seemed a logical wish, since Valery's father was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet air force. But Stern Disciplinarian Lysikov Sr. disapproved of his son's ambition, as he disapproved of almost everything else about the boy. He might have disapproved even more had he known that Valery's real wish was to become an American pilot. As a teen-ager in Stalingrad, and later in the East zone of Berlin, Valery was as devoutly pro-American as his non-proletarian father...
...real pride in healing the sick," said one of Rudloff's friends. But because he was only a male nurse and not a licensed doctor, Rudloff nursed a deep-seated resentment against those more qualified to heal than he. Beyond all of them, Rudloff resented most the stiffly disciplinarian chief surgeon at Waltershausen Municipal Hospital...